Kermie
We’re So Cooked(?)
- Location
- Somewhere On The Planet
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Maybe save that one for another, less esoteric Novalight combo.
Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)
SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
- Location
- Somewhere in the Cosmos
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Sooo wait till we get a tolerance 16 character and make literal space god/dess?
SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
- Location
- Somewhere in the Cosmos
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Good to know!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Two hour warning.
SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
- Location
- Somewhere in the Cosmos
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I dont think theres gonna be any more plans, and i think its black and gold for the colr scheme
Kermie
We’re So Cooked(?)
- Location
- Somewhere On The Planet
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Ok, maybe let us do the side effect rolls, and you can do the actual event rolls. That might work out better.
SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
- Location
- Somewhere in the Cosmos
- Pronouns
- He/Him
*Stares at both MrKermie and Bitterman* This might hipocritical of me considering my roll, but i feel were screwed no matter who rolls for what. We havent even reach issue #1 and everything is on fire, or i guess in this case covered in boiling alien blood.
LucidProp
Pocky Eating MafiaDoka
Everything's on fire, but we just got the biggest fire extinguisher in the world so we're quite well-positioned actually!
Or, well, less a fire extinguisher and more we have a even bigger fire to suck out all the oxygen from the smaller but more numerous and definitely villainous fires!
Back Issue #3: Sunset on New Dawn
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Hey, there you are star-girl! I see you hiding under the bed. You wanna come out?
No? Okay. . . I'll just come under there with you!
Ooh! It's nice and cool down here. I see why you didn't want to come out. It's quiet too . . . very zen.
Umm, it means "peaceful".
Yeah, so, Daddy owes you an apology, star-girl. I shouldn't have gotten so upset. I know you didn't break it on purpose.
No, no! Don't cry! It's okay, really. But that's why Daddy told you to be careful with his stuff. I know they look like toys, but . . . well, okay, actually they are toys. But they're not the kind of toys you play with! They're more for looking at.
It's an adult thing! And that was a first-edition commemorative figure of Valiant Red!
Yeah, he's Daddy's favorite hero. Have I ever told you about Valiant Red and New Dawn?
I have? Well, guess what? I'm gonna tell you again!
Back before Horizon was built, all that was here was the Leviathan and the QZ. Lots of countries sent all their armies to surround the QZ to make sure nothing got out.
What was there? Monsters. Behemoths. The scary stuff heroes keep us safe from!
Anyway there was a biiiig military base here and not much else. But then Ọsanyin—yeah! The funny old man from the commercials—had an idea: what if there was a city for all those soldiers to buy stuff from? So he bought up all the land, made a bunch of stores, and made a lot of money. So much money!
A million dollars? More like a billion dollars! A bazillion? . . . umm, y'know, he might have, actually.
Well, Ọsanyin made so much money he decided to make the city bigger. And then it got bigger, and bigger, and bigger, until it was the biggest city in the world! But to build that city, they needed lots of workers. Luckily for Ọsanyin—wait, I guess this part is really tragic—after the Leviathan fell, a bunch of countries ran out of food and got into wars, and people needed a palace to go. Like Daddy and your halmeoni. So they all came to Horizon to build the city!
Problem was, the people Ọsanyin put in charge after he died didn't treat all of the workers very nicely. They didn't pay them very much or take care of them when they got hurt. Then, some tried to make everybody work for free and there was a big riot. The bad men hired their own soldiers who hurt the workers, and for a while things looked really bad.
And then, Valiant Red appeared! He was so cool! He had this red costume and an awesome scarf! He had all these gadgets like a laser sword, and he did this really cool kick like, "Vaaaaaliant Kick!"
Don't laugh at Daddy! It's cool!
Valiant Red fought off the bad people's soldiers and protected all the workers like Halmeoni. Oh, it made them so mad! So mad they hired soldiers with super powers to get Valiant Red. But, Valiant Red had his own friends with superpowers!
Wait, come with me to the living room. I have figures of all of them! I'll show you.
The bed will be here later if you want to go back under it, come on!
Okay, so that's Steadfast, he's invincible. Dragonsteeth is here with her energy soldiers . . . Oh! I have Ali Baba—this is a rare one, you can see here turning into her ghost form. Novalight, check. Here's Cisma—she can lock people in different dimensions, which is why she's in charge of Wonderland. And here is Valkyrie. Oh, poor Valkyrie.
Oh, Daddy's not sad. Just . . . remembering. Valkyrie was the strongest hero in the city. Maybe even stronger than King—I have his figure over here by the way. Valkyrie was psychic. Should move stuff with her mind, talk to people without speaking, and even fly! She was dating Valiant Ret; get this, your Dad once saw them in public kissing.
I know, ew, gross!
Yeah, New Dawn was the best. But Valiant Red was their leader. He kind of defined what a hero was. Before him, no one wore costumes or protected the public or anything. But after Valiant Red did, they all copied him. Without Ọsanyin you wouldn't have metahumans. But without Valiant Red, you wouldn't have heroes.
What happened to them? Well . . . okay, sit down star-girl.
You know the big tower in the sky? The one that goes to space? Ọsanyin wanted to build it. It's called Jacob's Ladder. It has an official name, but I can't even remember what it is. They started building it when he was alive, but it took so long, he was dead by the time they finished it. By then, New Dawn had lots of members and was the biggest team of superheroes in the world.
But, as it turns out, Valkyrie was sick. Not sick in her body; she had a sickness in her head. It made her think things that weren't true. When they went to open Jacob's Ladder, she thought it was going to end the world. So, she tried to destroy it.
If Jacob's Ladder fell, it was going to hit the city and hurt a lot of people. So, everyone tried to stop her. But, she was way stronger than everyone thought. King had to come to fight her and he barely won. But he did.
So, Valkyrie ran to the QZ. I don't know why. But she destroyed a big part of the military base and a bunch of Behemoths got out. New Dawn followed in the QZ to stop her, but . . . she got too close to the Leviathan and the R-Train activated.
It doesn't matter why you're in the QZ; if you get too close to the Leviathan or try to leave with goldnine, the R-Train will come after you. You could see the units it deployed fighting New Dawn all the way from our house. King joined the fight and . . . it was really scary.
You okay, star-girl? We can stop here if you want.
You sure? You want to hear the end? Okay.
Just when it looked like the fighting was over, the whispers started. I still remember it. Mommy was pregnant with you and were going to a hospital when we heard it. It was . . . a quiet voice. But you didn't hear it with your ears. It was in your head. It was like a person very far away shouting very loudly, but you couldn't tell what they were saying. That's why they called it "The Susurration."
I know you know what that means! You're my smart, little star-girl and you get a gold star!
But yeah. Everyone in the city heard the Susurration. And then we all saw Valkyrie. She was in the sky and glowing really brightly. She raised an arm, lifted a gigantic amount of goldnine, and began to throw it at the city.
It would have hit everyone if King hadn't blocked it. But he couldn't stop the goldnine and Valkyrie at the same time. She started attacking him and it looked like she was going to win. So Novalight attacked her.
We didn't know how strong Novalight was at the time. She was a very private person. But she hit Valkyrie with a large amount of radiation—light that makes you sick. It was enough to stop Valkyrie, but there was so much light it made a bunch of people in the city sick too. You still can't go into parts of the OID to this day.
So, King and New Dawn won. But. . . Valiant Red and Ali Baba died. Then Steadfast left the team and went back to the American army. Dragonsteeth quit. And Novalight and Cisma put Valkyrie in Wonderland forever. New Dawn won, but they also lost.
Yes, I know what "pyrrhic victory" means! Man, you are too smart!
Everyone was mad at New Dawn. Other teams began to come to Horizon. The Amercians sent Global Justice—they say they didn't, but everyone knows—and then Dominion Security created Hero for Hire where anyone could pay a metahuman to work for them. They have an official team called "Powers" but it's mostly Scarlet Maturity doing whatever he wants.
People still dress up in costumes, but they don't act like heroes anymore.
New Dawn is still here, and still the biggest team in the city, but Novalight doesn't let them do much anymore. It's nice if you live in the Uni District where they patrol, but they don't help workers like us anymore. So yeah. That's the end of the story.
Aww, it's okay star-girl. I'm not sad! I'm happy because I got to talk to my favorite person: you!
So what if you're heard this story a million times? I'll tell you it a billion times! A bazillion! Now, come on Nora, let's get a hot-glue gun and see if we can save Valiant Red's head!
No? Okay. . . I'll just come under there with you!
Ooh! It's nice and cool down here. I see why you didn't want to come out. It's quiet too . . . very zen.
Umm, it means "peaceful".
Yeah, so, Daddy owes you an apology, star-girl. I shouldn't have gotten so upset. I know you didn't break it on purpose.
No, no! Don't cry! It's okay, really. But that's why Daddy told you to be careful with his stuff. I know they look like toys, but . . . well, okay, actually they are toys. But they're not the kind of toys you play with! They're more for looking at.
It's an adult thing! And that was a first-edition commemorative figure of Valiant Red!
Yeah, he's Daddy's favorite hero. Have I ever told you about Valiant Red and New Dawn?
I have? Well, guess what? I'm gonna tell you again!
Back before Horizon was built, all that was here was the Leviathan and the QZ. Lots of countries sent all their armies to surround the QZ to make sure nothing got out.
What was there? Monsters. Behemoths. The scary stuff heroes keep us safe from!
Anyway there was a biiiig military base here and not much else. But then Ọsanyin—yeah! The funny old man from the commercials—had an idea: what if there was a city for all those soldiers to buy stuff from? So he bought up all the land, made a bunch of stores, and made a lot of money. So much money!
A million dollars? More like a billion dollars! A bazillion? . . . umm, y'know, he might have, actually.
Well, Ọsanyin made so much money he decided to make the city bigger. And then it got bigger, and bigger, and bigger, until it was the biggest city in the world! But to build that city, they needed lots of workers. Luckily for Ọsanyin—wait, I guess this part is really tragic—after the Leviathan fell, a bunch of countries ran out of food and got into wars, and people needed a palace to go. Like Daddy and your halmeoni. So they all came to Horizon to build the city!
Problem was, the people Ọsanyin put in charge after he died didn't treat all of the workers very nicely. They didn't pay them very much or take care of them when they got hurt. Then, some tried to make everybody work for free and there was a big riot. The bad men hired their own soldiers who hurt the workers, and for a while things looked really bad.
And then, Valiant Red appeared! He was so cool! He had this red costume and an awesome scarf! He had all these gadgets like a laser sword, and he did this really cool kick like, "Vaaaaaliant Kick!"
Don't laugh at Daddy! It's cool!
Valiant Red fought off the bad people's soldiers and protected all the workers like Halmeoni. Oh, it made them so mad! So mad they hired soldiers with super powers to get Valiant Red. But, Valiant Red had his own friends with superpowers!
Wait, come with me to the living room. I have figures of all of them! I'll show you.
The bed will be here later if you want to go back under it, come on!
Okay, so that's Steadfast, he's invincible. Dragonsteeth is here with her energy soldiers . . . Oh! I have Ali Baba—this is a rare one, you can see here turning into her ghost form. Novalight, check. Here's Cisma—she can lock people in different dimensions, which is why she's in charge of Wonderland. And here is Valkyrie. Oh, poor Valkyrie.
Oh, Daddy's not sad. Just . . . remembering. Valkyrie was the strongest hero in the city. Maybe even stronger than King—I have his figure over here by the way. Valkyrie was psychic. Should move stuff with her mind, talk to people without speaking, and even fly! She was dating Valiant Ret; get this, your Dad once saw them in public kissing.
I know, ew, gross!
Yeah, New Dawn was the best. But Valiant Red was their leader. He kind of defined what a hero was. Before him, no one wore costumes or protected the public or anything. But after Valiant Red did, they all copied him. Without Ọsanyin you wouldn't have metahumans. But without Valiant Red, you wouldn't have heroes.
What happened to them? Well . . . okay, sit down star-girl.
You know the big tower in the sky? The one that goes to space? Ọsanyin wanted to build it. It's called Jacob's Ladder. It has an official name, but I can't even remember what it is. They started building it when he was alive, but it took so long, he was dead by the time they finished it. By then, New Dawn had lots of members and was the biggest team of superheroes in the world.
But, as it turns out, Valkyrie was sick. Not sick in her body; she had a sickness in her head. It made her think things that weren't true. When they went to open Jacob's Ladder, she thought it was going to end the world. So, she tried to destroy it.
If Jacob's Ladder fell, it was going to hit the city and hurt a lot of people. So, everyone tried to stop her. But, she was way stronger than everyone thought. King had to come to fight her and he barely won. But he did.
So, Valkyrie ran to the QZ. I don't know why. But she destroyed a big part of the military base and a bunch of Behemoths got out. New Dawn followed in the QZ to stop her, but . . . she got too close to the Leviathan and the R-Train activated.
It doesn't matter why you're in the QZ; if you get too close to the Leviathan or try to leave with goldnine, the R-Train will come after you. You could see the units it deployed fighting New Dawn all the way from our house. King joined the fight and . . . it was really scary.
You okay, star-girl? We can stop here if you want.
You sure? You want to hear the end? Okay.
Just when it looked like the fighting was over, the whispers started. I still remember it. Mommy was pregnant with you and were going to a hospital when we heard it. It was . . . a quiet voice. But you didn't hear it with your ears. It was in your head. It was like a person very far away shouting very loudly, but you couldn't tell what they were saying. That's why they called it "The Susurration."
I know you know what that means! You're my smart, little star-girl and you get a gold star!
But yeah. Everyone in the city heard the Susurration. And then we all saw Valkyrie. She was in the sky and glowing really brightly. She raised an arm, lifted a gigantic amount of goldnine, and began to throw it at the city.
It would have hit everyone if King hadn't blocked it. But he couldn't stop the goldnine and Valkyrie at the same time. She started attacking him and it looked like she was going to win. So Novalight attacked her.
We didn't know how strong Novalight was at the time. She was a very private person. But she hit Valkyrie with a large amount of radiation—light that makes you sick. It was enough to stop Valkyrie, but there was so much light it made a bunch of people in the city sick too. You still can't go into parts of the OID to this day.
So, King and New Dawn won. But. . . Valiant Red and Ali Baba died. Then Steadfast left the team and went back to the American army. Dragonsteeth quit. And Novalight and Cisma put Valkyrie in Wonderland forever. New Dawn won, but they also lost.
Yes, I know what "pyrrhic victory" means! Man, you are too smart!
Everyone was mad at New Dawn. Other teams began to come to Horizon. The Amercians sent Global Justice—they say they didn't, but everyone knows—and then Dominion Security created Hero for Hire where anyone could pay a metahuman to work for them. They have an official team called "Powers" but it's mostly Scarlet Maturity doing whatever he wants.
People still dress up in costumes, but they don't act like heroes anymore.
New Dawn is still here, and still the biggest team in the city, but Novalight doesn't let them do much anymore. It's nice if you live in the Uni District where they patrol, but they don't help workers like us anymore. So yeah. That's the end of the story.
Aww, it's okay star-girl. I'm not sad! I'm happy because I got to talk to my favorite person: you!
So what if you're heard this story a million times? I'll tell you it a billion times! A bazillion! Now, come on Nora, let's get a hot-glue gun and see if we can save Valiant Red's head!
LucidProp
Pocky Eating MafiaDoka
This line caught me off guard. Made me deflate for a moment.
Seems like we're seeing Mona flashback to her father's bed time stories. Some real nice world-building there. It makes sense that it would be difficult for superhero orgs to stay independent the way we would like them to. National and corporate interests are going to worm its way into it eventually since everyone's got bills to pay and independent superhero work doesn't earn much thanks to the nature of the job being more about giving than recieving.
Interesting to see that King was able to stop Valkyrie's Goldnine throw however, since we know the stuff is deadly to touch. I'm assuming King has some sort of telekinesis or enegy manipulation himself, or maybe he really is just that tough. We definitely need to talk to Valkyrie one of these days too, since it seems like she also heard Leviathan's voice. I don't think she was driven mad by it though. She played her fights too smart for her to have gone insane.
As for Mona, little star girl's really grown into her nickname, and we see where she got the habit of hoarding merch! Here's hoping her dad adds one more figurine to his collection soon.
Kermie
We’re So Cooked(?)
- Location
- Somewhere On The Planet
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
The R-Train isn't human… it's Skynet?!
And that's one out of the four voices mentioned earlier. So far, in no particular order, we've seen:
- The Deep Voice: The Leviathan
- The Shy Voice: Child (?) that Mona Saw
- The Manipulative Voice: The Father (?) of The Child(?)
- The Whispering Voice: The Cause of The Susurration.
…or was it both?
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LucidProp
Pocky Eating MafiaDoka
Valkyrie's still alive. She's in Wonderland, Novalight's maximum security prison for metahumans.
Novalight and a lot of New Dawn are dead though, so I think the prison is going to stop being one soon.
That aside, I think this was the natural trajectory of superheroes since the status quo wasn't really sustainable. It's not that the voices made everyone meaner. It's just that metahumans and superheroes were eventually absorbed into existing structures like governments and corporations since existing as a independent superhero for long isn't really viable unless you had no civilian connections and no human needs like food or shelter. At that point however, it's hard to imagine someone without any connection to people or society caring for either of these things.
Kermie
We’re So Cooked(?)
- Location
- Somewhere On The Planet
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Well, not death, since Valkyrie got tossed facefirst into Wonderland, but still bad.
Edit: Just saw @LucidProp's comment, talk about timing.
But Valiant Red's dead. Now, does that mean that somewhere has his DNA profile available for us...?
Edit: Just saw @LucidProp's comment, talk about timing.
But Valiant Red's dead. Now, does that mean that somewhere has his DNA profile available for us...?
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'll drop this here!
- Location
- California
You know, when I first saw scarlet sopranos powers, I thought it would be cool if Mona recharged on top of the ladder because theres no/less atmosphere to block the light. I thought the biggest hurdle would be silly things like asphyxiation, not ash of the old gods and the apocalypse(???)
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Kermie
We’re So Cooked(?)
- Location
- Somewhere On The Planet
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
It seems that Mona might be meeting her greater (combat-wise) sooner than we thought. I'd like at least five supers total, with two more of them being Potency 8+ before even thinking about trying to find and apprehend Valkyrie...
Kermie
We’re So Cooked(?)
- Location
- Somewhere On The Planet
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Nora/Valiant SIlver was still in the womb during The Susurration? I'm willing to bet a few hundred that The Susurration affected her somehow. She did invent psy-tech, and it wouldn't seem like comics if it hadn't.